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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ORRIS C. HILL, OF MALONE, NEW YORK.

DOOR.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 13,090, dated June 19, 1855.

To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, Onlus C. HILL, of Malone, in the county of Franklin and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Method of Making Doors .Shut so Closely as to Exclude Air and Vater; and I do hereby decla-re that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the acco-mpanying drawings, making a part of this specification.

The nature ofv my invention consists in inserting springs and strips c, c, into grooves formed in t-he top, bottom, or outer edge of a door, whose top, bottom and outer edge is beveled and fits into a casing which is correspondingly beveled, the said strips and springs being so arranged that the strips will never spring out far enough to come in contact-when the door is swung int-o its casing-with the face of the casing, but far enough to bring the said strips in contact with the beveled faces of the casing before the door reaches its closed position. which will cause the said strips to be forced back somewhat, when the door reaches its closed position, and thereby insure water and wind proof joints on all sides of it.

In the accompanying drawings Figure l, is an elevation of a closed door and its casing; Fig. 2, a vertical section in the line a a; of Fig. l; Fig. 3, a transverse section in the line Z) Z) of Fig. l; and Fig. 4, is a transverse section representing the door as partly open. c

A is the door, c c are the spring strips,

and (Z (Z are the beveled faces of the door ORRIS C. HILL.

fitnesses ABEL RICHEY, C. E. HASTINGS. 

